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3/11/02 - 3/17/02

Sunday 3/17/02

US, Taliban hold secret talks on POWs  3/17/02 Frontier Post, Pakistan: "ISLAMABAD (SANA): Taliban have announced their willingness to release 18 US troops in exchange for all prisoners detained at Guantanamo island."

Army fear over Blair war plans  3/17/02 Guardian, UK

'Chorus of Dissent' greets Bush at St. Pat's Parade  3/17/02 IndyMedia

Israeli espionage case skirted public's radar  3/17/02 Pittsburgh Tribune Review

US forces braced for long guerrilla fight in mountains  3/17/02 Scotsman, UK: say 10 years, like the Soviet Union? - "Some American officials had spoken of heavy casualties - up to 800 dead - inflicted on al-Qaeda fighters and remnants of the ultra-fundamentalist Islamic Taliban government which crumbled at the end of last year. On Wednesday American and Afghan troops finally entered the village of Shah-e-Kot, at the centre of the battle area. But among the shattered houses and terraced fields gouged by scores of bombs there were only three dead enemy fighters and another two who were injured. The rest had seemingly melted away."

Arab cities erupt in protest  3/17/02 Sydney Morning Herald

Blunkett warns Blair of riots in Britain over Iraq  3/17/02 Telegraph, UK

Israeli pacifists demonstrate across country  3/17/02 Times of India

Saturday 3/16/02

Low-Yield Earth-Penetrating Nuclear Weapons 3/16/02 Federation of American Scientists

Over 100 US servicemen killed so far in Afghanistan says Russian agency 3/16/02 Ummah News: "The armed forces of the United States have lost 102 men killed and 124 wounded during the "anti-terrorist" operation which began in Afghanistan in October 2001. The figure was furnished to Itar-Tass by military sources in the Afghan capital. They noted that the indicated number of killed and wounded American officers and men included only the "combat losses" sustained by U.S. troops during the operations against Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters."

Friday 3/15/02

Soundbyte Patriots  3/15/02 Alternet

Agents said to oppose inquiry  3/15/02 Baltimore Sun: "Two senior agents from the FBI's Baltimore office told a private detective yesterday that the mistaken shooting of an unarmed Pasadena man likely would be ruled a "clean shoot," and discouraged him from looking into the case further, the investigator said in an interview."

U.S. using new law on secret evidence  3/15/02 Chicago Tribune: what Constitution?

Those Secret Snatches - Render Unto Caesar  3/15/02 Counterpunch

FBI Probe Defuses Israeli Spying Rumors  3/15/02 Forward, US

Spy Rumors Fly on Gusts of Truth  3/15/02 Forward, US

With no medicine and little food, detainees are slowly dying  3/15/02 IHT

PRISIONEROS POLÍTICOS ¡AL HUECO!  3/15/02 Jiribilla

Israel rethinking battlefield-tank strategy  3/15/02 Stratfor

Thursday 3/14/02

Anthrax attacks  3/14/02 BBC: "A Newsnight investigation raised the possibility that there was a secret CIA project to investigate methods of sending anthrax through the mail which went madly out of control." The BBC!

As ice melts, climate-study funds dry up  3/14/02 Christian Science Monitor

Nixon's daughters battle over $12 million bequest  3/14/02 Houston Chronicle: the fruits of a shady past: rumor has it that Bebe helped Nixon in a 40's tire recycling scam in Florida - where else?

Judiciary panel rejects Bush nominee  3/14/02 MSNBC: victory

Scandal Inside the FBI: Did G-Men Miss the Boat on 9-11?  3/14/02 NewsMax

Wednesday 3/13/02

Afghan Airstrike Killed Women, Kids  3/13/02 ABC News

THE 'URBAN MYTH' GAMBIT - Apologists 'spin' Israel's spy operation in the US  3/13/02 AntiWar.com

Italian Reporter Killed by Israeli Fire  3/13/02 AP

Anthrax Investigation Provokes Charges of Cover-Up  3/13/02 Counterpunch: "According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, the Arms Mill outbreak is "the only anthrax epidemic" that occurred in the United States. The CDC also reports "that only 18 cases of inhalation anthrax were reported in the U.S. from 1900 to 1978 and that "two of the cases were laboratory associated." In an amazing coincidence, at the same time of the Arms outbreak, the mill was the site of tests using an experimental anthrax vaccine. The Biological Warfare Laboratories of the U.S. Chemical Corps at Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, sponsored the tests, which began quietly in May 1955." Amazing coincidence!!!!!!!

Allies and espionage  3/13/02 Jane's, UK: "It is rather strange that the US media seems to be ignoring what may well be the most explosive story since the 11 September attacks — the alleged break-up of a major Israeli espionage operation in the USA"

Venezuela: Next Chile?  3/13/02 Petroleum World

U.S. Said to Reject New Aid for Israel  3/13/02 Reuters

Israel building a concentration camp north of Hebron  3/13/02 Ummah News

Tuesday 3/12/02

The War on Dissent Widens  3/12/02 Alternet: "Who exactly is behind AVOT's efforts? The newly-formed organization is headed by a formidable array of right-wing luminaries. At the top of the list is former Secretary of Education and drug czar William Bennett, AVOT's chairman. The group's Senior Advisors include former CIA director R. James Woolsey; former Reagan Pentagon official Frank Gaffney; William P. Barr, attorney general under George Bush, Sr; and mega-political donor Lawrence Kadish. AVOT is a project of Empower America -- also co-chaired by Bennett -- whose principal members include conservative political operatives Jeane Kirkpatrick, Jack Kemp, Vin Weber and William Cohen."

Denver Police Keeping Illegal Files  3/12/02 AP

US sends suspects to face torture  3/12/02 Guardian: this story is also in the Washington Post, which we do not link to as they do not maintain their stories on their site.

Outrage over death of handcuffed suspect  3/12/02 Scotsman, UK

Phalangist’s murder may be part of pattern  3/12/02 Scotsman, UK: another Sharon witness executed, this time in Brazil.

Monday 3/11/02

War 'playing into al-Qaeda's hands'  3/11/02 BBC: "The report notes "a widespread belief that the US... [is] exerting an unacceptable control over the Gulf states because of its determination to maintain security of oil supplies". It contrasts this with an American focus on seeing al-Qaeda "simply as fundamentalists acting from motives of sheer hatred for the US and all it stood for".

The Dr. Ford Case: A “Not Guilty” Case Nobody Wanted To Touch  3/11/02 Black World Today

US making tall claims on fighting: French mly  3/11/02 Dawn, Pakistan: "The "pockets of resistance" that the Pentagon says it's destroyed in recent days "continue to exist," according to French military sources, indeed the resistance being put up by the Taliban and their allies "is so formidable that the number of points of resistance has multiplied in recent days, instead of decrease," says one of the sources."

Qaeda's solar-powered, carpeted caves  3/11/02 IHT

Intelligence Agents Or Art Students?  3/11/02 Insight, US: As you might have guessed from some of the organized crime ramifications of this ongoing story, DEA suspects one here: "Despite the students' claims that they had themselves produced the artwork or paintings they were offering for sale, "information has been received which indicates the art is actually produced in China."… "The nature of the individuals' conduct, combined with intelligence information and historical information regarding past incidents involving Israeli organized crime, leads IS [DEA's Internal Security division] to believe the incidents may well be an organized intelligence-gathering activity," a classified document euphemizes.

An Israeli spy network in the United States?  3/11/02 Jewish World Review: by the rabid author of "Islamism is fascism"

THE ANTHRAX CULPRIT  3/11/02 New Yorker

FBI fails to expose al-Qaeda networks  3/11/02 Times, UK

Massacre in Jabalya refugee camp, Ramallah under attack  3/11/02 Ummah News

Mujahideen may demand freedom of Camp X-Ray inmates in prisoner exchange  3/11/02 Ummah News: "The US has now offered to negotiate with opposition Afghan Mujahideen to secure the exchange of 18 of its captured soldiers, two of whom are thought to be senior US military officials. The sources disclosed that as soon as news of the arrest of the soldiers reached the Commander in charge of operation Anaconda, Gardez, Major General Franks, he immediately gave the order to halt the operation and ground US warplanes. He then sent a delegation of two senior military officials to meet the Governor of Paktika Wardaag to relay the offer to the Mujahideen commander, Mulla Saif ur Rehman Mansoor."

Hundreds of U.S. troops have arrived in Yemen  3/11/02 World Tribune, US

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Islaam Homepage

Islamic Assembly of North America [IANA on LINE]

Jam'iat Ihyaa' Minhaaj al-Sunnah Homepage

Nida'ul Islam/ The Call of Islam Magazine Online

Words Written in Blood. Arabic book collection of Shaheed Sheikh

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Estimates of the total number of Muslims range from 0.7 to 1.2 billion worldwide and 3 to 6 million in the U.S. About 20% of all people on earth follow Islam. The religion is in a period of rapid growth.

Christianity is currently the largest religion in the world. It is followed by about 33% of all people -- a percentage that has remaind stable for decades. It is expected that, if current trends continue, Islam will become the most popular religion sometime in the mid-21^st century.

-- http://www.religioustolerance.org/islam.htm

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Iraq news: Soaring death rates among Iraqi children, 1999 BBC, UNICEF 500,000 child deaths

Ramsey Clark: Report to UN Security Council re: Iraq, 1/26/2000
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